Word: return
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what reporters say and what columnist-pundits do. A columnist is usually admired for the vigor of his opinions and regarded as wishy-washy if he does too much on-the-other-handing. In Iran, where so much is happening but so little is conclusive, a reporter who must return to the same story day after day just hopes events haven't undone what he has just written. His ambition is a humbler one: to describe confusion lucidly, and to allow a comfortable margin for the unknown...
...companies argue that the federal controls on gas prices that were imposed during the fuel panic touched off by the 1973 oil embargo discourage investment in new refineries because the return on investment is too low when compared with that produced by other operations. As supplies diminish, more and more oil firms are limiting deliveries of both leaded and unleaded to dealers. Two weeks ago Texaco joined American Petrofina and Phillips Petroleum in allocating supplies, and last week Chevron sought Government permission to take similar steps. Says Texaco Vice President Annon Card: "If demand keeps going...
...this year's election, the county soundly rejected Kelly, returned two anti-desegregation spokesmen to positions of power and over-whelmingly approved a Proposition 13-style tax measure, prompting the Post to comment, "The voters seemed to be seeking a return to the days when life in Prince George's was simpler...
...visiting committee is scheduled to return later in the semester to present its written evaluation of the department. A committee of concentrators is also preparing a report of its own to try to "influence the visiting committee to see the department in a different manner than the Harvard Corporation sees it," Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-American Studies concentrator, said last week...
...character. Yellen hasn't given him any shading; the role is all in the snappy dialogue with nothing in between the lines. Lewis and Thompson (Lois Nettleton) bicker through an interminable "seduction" scene in her Berlin apartment, fly off to Moscow where he gets drunk and insults the Commies, return to Berlin where he gets drunk and insults her, get married and move to Vermont where she misses her journalism and he can't write, fly back to Europe where she exposes the German Third Reich as evil and violent while he collects the Nobel Prize, gets drunk and insults...